Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Moliere
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Nasty
Creature
Creatures
Men
Assure
More quotes by Moliere
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere
How easy love makes fools of us.
Moliere
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Moliere
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Moliere
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
Moliere
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Moliere
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
Moliere
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Moliere
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Moliere
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Moliere
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Moliere
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Moliere
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Moliere
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
Moliere
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry
Moliere
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Moliere
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
Moliere
